Stylehive bookmark of the week: Tokidoki Watches

Stylehive/Social Bookmarking/Web Culture
Found on: Stylehive.com

Description: tokidoki mean "sometimes" in Japanese. I chose a Japanese word beacause I love Japan. I love everything from the ultra modern happy face of Shibuya to the serious magic of Kyoto. I chose "sometimes," because everyone waits for moments that change one's destiny. By simple chance or meeting a new person, tokidoki is the hope, the hidden energy everyone has inside that gives us the strength to face a new day and dream something positive, that something magical will happen to us.

Price: 105.00 USD

Tags: accessoires, accessories, art, asian, assessories, bijoux, design, fashion, illustrations, japanese, jewels, montre, tokidoki, watch, women, womens

URL: http://shop.tokidoki.it/category.asp?CtgID=304

You're just a clique away from MySpace's `Top 8'

News/Social Networks/Myspace/Marc Ramirez
Found on: belleville.com

SEATTLE - In the online world of MySpace, her best friend kept messaging a boy that Jasmine Gervais didn't like. Before long, the two friends argued.

Then her friend did the unthinkable: In the "Heroes" portion of her MySpace profile, she replaced Jasmine's photo with, as Jasmine puts it, "a picture of this stupid boy." With that, Jasmine, a 16-year-old student at Seattle's Center School, moved her friend from the No. 1 spot in her Top 8 MySpace friends to No. 8. Barely clinging to honored status! But then her friend did the same.

What next? "I deleted her," Jasmine says. "I thought it was hilarious. She called me up, screaming, `What are you thinking? That's so bitchy.' And then she hung up on me."

FITTING IN ONLINE

In MySpace, everyone can hear you scream. And amid the self-conscious and peer-pressured terrain that is teendom, MySpace - and the "Top 8" friends shown on one's main profile page - can broadcast your place in the hierarchy more bluntly and publicly than ever.

"For some people, the Top 8 is like a ranking scale of who you like the most to who you somewhat sort of like," says Seattle student Joanne Nguyen, 16. "It's just like high school."

The social-networking site popular with youths lets users create their own profile pages, including an invitation-only gallery of their friends' profile photos. The top friends get the top space. But being put there, or being left out, can be taken as a public statement about where one stands, making you feel all warm and fuzzy inside - or like you totally want to throw a hissy fit.

Titled: “I Hate Garageband.com,” or “Thank God for Record Labels”

Music/Social Network/Web Culture/MOG
Found on: MOG

trigger says:

The other day I visited www.garageband.com for the first time. I’ve been in bands before, so I was very interested in the concept of having unsigned bands be rated by the layman. User opinion has always worked for me on www.citysearch.com, www.yelp.com, www.amazon.com, etc, so I thought I’d find some great, unsigned bands that other people were into. Very rarely does music make me want to rip off my headphones, but out of five different songs, I ripped my headphones off four times. The first song was bad, but I gave it a full listen. I thought for sure that the next song would be better. Nope. And with each song, I got more and more annoyed at what I was listening to. It seemed an impossible task to wade through enough awful lyrics and artsy chord progressions before a good song emerged. Garageband, please leave that job to the professionals.

Nerd Pool Party

Gabcity/Social Network/Web Culture/Video
Found on: Gabcity.com



Video Description:
Nitro liquid.

Gabcity Stats (as of this post):
Runtime: 01:31 | Views: 136 | Comments: 0
Tags: water people | Channel: People

http://videos.gabcity.com/Nitro-liquid.aspx

Couplets.com Can Help Couples Make Close Friends, Socialize More

Socail Networks/Web Culture/Couplets
Found on: clickpress.com



A recent Duke University study found that Americans have smaller social networks than they did 20 years ago, including fewer contacts through neighbors, clubs and organizations. That makes it more difficult for today’s busy couples to make and find new “couple friends.” But Couplets.com, a growing online social network, is designed to help couples meet other, like-minded couples. The service – currently available free – enables member couples to easily identify and connect with other couples based on shared interests and locations.

The Duke University study found that more evidence of increasing social fragmentation and isolation known as “Bowling Alone,” from a book by Harvard sociologist Robert D. Putnam. While the current study and Dr. Putnam’s book focus on individuals, it seems clear that this trend also affects couples.

“We founded Couplets.com because we realized that couples need new ways to meet other couples because based on our own experience we knew people were not joining organizations, which has been a traditional way for couples meet new people,” said Jay Chalnick, president, Couplets.com. “We created Couplets.com because we saw lots of couples who didn’t have the time or the networks to find new friends who share their interests. Couples can select from more than 40 different activities they enjoy, including bowling, so they never have to bowl alone again.”

Scanning the social networks

News/Social Networks/Myspace/Law/Charles D. Perry
Found on: heraldonline.com

Sometime during the final hours of every shift, Cpl. David Dover sits down at a computer in the Clover Police Department and logs into his MySpace.com account.

But he isn't going there to socialize.

Posing as a fictitious person, Dover searches for information. He looks at the personalized pages of people involved in his department's cases. He looks up perennial troublemakers' pages to see what they're up to. It's all at his fingertips -- what people are doing, what they plan to do and where they plan to do it.

"These kids talk about anything and everything," Dover said.

Metallica Capitulates to iTunes, Napster

News/Web Culture/Music/iTunes
Found on: marketingvox.com

Metallica, perceived as the bane of Napster and heavy-metal foe of all things digitally downloadable, has cast aside principle and cast its lot with what it said, tongue in cheek, was an "upstart outfit who we feel may very well have a bright future" - Apple's iTunes, that is. The LA Times reports that the band, one of the few (along with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Radiohead) to resist selling individual songs online, has relented.

"Over the last year or so, we have seen an ever-growing number of Metallica fans using online sites like iTunes to get their music," ABC News quotes the band as announcing on its website. "So, in continuing with the tradition of offering our albums for sale online (which we've been doing for a few years through various sites), as well as making our live concerts available for download in their entirety, we are now offering fans the opportunity to obtain our songs individually."

Warner Bros. to Sever Zango Adware Link

News/Web Culture/Marketing/Youth Trends/Adware
Found on: marketingvox.com

Via a partnership with Zango (the former 180solutions) the Warner Bros. website, an online destination for kids, has been offering free games via adware that Zango installs on users' computers. The catch: some of the ads that kids may end up seeing could be for porn, writes the Washington Post.

The Warner site sends those clicking on the Zango sponsor logo to a "Fun Stuff" page offering games, with a pre-checked box adjacent to an "I confirm I am 18 or older" above the end-user license agreement (EULA), several blogs reported yesterday - and others more than two months ago - explaining the deceptive process that could end up serving porn ads to kids.

Flickr: Moleskine Art?

Social Networks/Web Culture/Flickr/Photos
Found on: Flickr

So what if the Moleskine (pronounced mol-a-skeen-a, /mɔləˈskinə/) is trendy, I love them anyway and from the looks of it, their not just for taking notes anymore; I found a really cool Flickr "Group Photo Pool" called "Moleskinerie" that has tons of great photos of all the wonderful artwork some people are creating with them. Yes, art! Anyway, check it out for yourself -- FYI, the image below is one of a series of art pieces that user Kathrin2305 has created using Moleskines, really cool stuff.



Group Photo Pool:

Moleskinerie

Flickr: stats as of this post:

4,770 photos

1,810 Members

Kazaa shells out 115 million?

News/Web Culture/Website/Youth Trends
Found on: AP.org

The company behind software called "Kazaa," which made it simple for millions of computer users to download music and movies over the Internet, has agreed to pay more than $115 million to the entertainment industry to settle global piracy lawsuits, the industry said Thursday.

Sharman Networks Ltd., which produced and distributed the popular Kazaa software, also promised to "use all reasonable means" to discourage online piracy, including building into its software "robust and secure" ways to frustrate computer users who try to find and download copyrighted music and movies, court papers said.

By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writer

Heavy.com Launches Mock News, BK Sponsors

News/Web Culture/Website/Youth Trends
Found on: marketingvox.com

Video-based entertainment website Heavy.com, aimed at a younger male audience, has launched a mock-news program featuring, among others, a sock-puppet correspondent and a Palestinian shock jock-ette.

Heavy.com's new show, Heavy News, has begun offering original "news" video clips that, like much of the site's content, is edgy and irreverent, reports MediaWeek. One of the Heavy News "correspondents" is a sock puppet - purportedly "Peter Jennings' sock before he died." The intrepid Burger King has signed on as an advertiser, with its BK Stackers as the show's premiere sponsor.

Snocap Launches Linx - Napster Founder Selling Unprotected MP3s on MySpace

News/Social Networks/Myspace/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Masable



Snocap, the latest startup from Napster founder Sean Fanning, has just launched the beta version of its “Linx” service, which sells unencrypted, unprotected MP3s through MySpace. hi5, Bebo, Multiply and any other site that supports Flash embeds) can post a widget that plays the tracks and allows you to buy them right away. Indie band “The Format” is currently using the widgets on its MySpace page, where you can buy songs from their album “Dog Problems”. Tracks cost $0.79 each, which Snocap automatically charges to your Paypal account. However, artists have control over the format, pricing and copy protection - so it’s possible that DRM’d tracks could also be sold through the system (sigh).

Review Pending

Apple, Facebook Partner for iTunes Music Giveaway

News/Social Networks/Facebook/iTunes
Found on: marketingvox.com

Apple will provide up to 250 million songs to Facebook users who are members of the site's Apple's group page, which now has some 130,000 members, writes AdWeek. The effort is in part intended to increase the group's membership. Apple will run banner ads on Facebook to inform users of the promotion. Apple will send a redemption code to group members to download each week's "sampler."

The best way for artists and fans to connect

Web Culture/Myspace/Marketing/Widgets
Found on: Saynow







Join a up-start indie band - check.

Create a rocking Myspace page - check.

Build a huge friends list - check.

Find a way to keep the band's buzz buzzing - check? Damn, uncheck!

Okay, here's the deal - I've been in bands all my life, and one of the hardiest things to do is keep in touch with your fan base and update everyone on the going-on's of the band - yes, even in today's digital world. So when I read about a new Myspace widget created by the guys at SayNow, a company based in Palo Alto, I knew they may be onto something - something BIG.

Introducing ShoutOuts!

Artists can now send voice messages to their mobile fan club anytime they want by calling their ShoutOut number!

Fans can listen to their favorite artists on their cell phone and even send a reply!

Everyone's number is kept totally private...and it's free!

ShoutOut! has the potential to be one of the coolest and most innovating Myspace widgets/marketing tools ever, time will only tell...more groupie love - check!

Nice Kicks!

Sneakerplay/Socail Networks/Web Culture
Found on: nicekicks.com

Sneakerplay is “an innovative social network designed specifically for the global sneaker culture.” Members can create galleries, tag and organize collections, start battles to face off shoe by shoe with other members and of course bottom line - meet new people and see great sneakers.

They’re currently in a private, invite-only beta as they add new features and fix existing bugs, which means you’ll need somone to invite you to check it out. You can also sign up to receive an invite, as they are slowly filtering them into the community. This is going to be huge once things get rolling.

Get more info about Sneakerplay on Mashable.com

Review Pending

Virtually Embedded with James aka Hamlet Au

Second Life/News/Interview/Video
Found on:Geekentertainment.tv

Second Life is a vibrant exploding universe onto itself. It has a thriving economy, a creative workforce, islands of virtual terrain to explore, build upon and events at all times of the day. It takes an embedded journalist to bring these virtual realities to the lowly first world. GETV’s Irina Slutsky gets a first life interview with former Linden Lab’er Wagner James Au, currently an embedded journalist in Second Life who writes New World Notes. Find out how in-game citizens get fancy threads and make phat Lindens, also discover the secret double lives some gamers lead.

Episode links: James Wagner Au, New World Notes, Second Life, Linden Lab, furry, robots, Catherine Omega, Snakekiss Noir

QT (.mov) download link

Stylehive Gets Funding

Stylehive/Social Bookmarking/News/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Mashable.com

California-based Stylehive has secured $2.62 million of a $3.32 million deal led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, it was reported today. The social-bookmarking site for fashion was founded by Michael Carrier and the site design is by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes.

Stylehive is similar to Wists and Kaboodle - when you’re on a shopping site, you hit the browser bookmarklet to grab relevant text and images. You can then select which image to use, choose from some automatically generated tags and post the item to your account. You can also add items from Stylehive.com by hitting the “quick copy” button next to any bookmark. The design is large, bold and colorful - you’ll either love it or hate it.

Stylehive bookmark of the week!

Stylehive/Social Bookmarking/Web Culture
Found on: Stylehive.com

Description: The Belkin Wi-Fi Phone for Skype works anywhere in the world through your secured or open access to a Wi-Fi network—without a computer. Any home, office, cafe, or municipal wireless access point that does not require browser-based authentication will do.

Price: 149.00 USD

Tags: 80211, belkin, belkin wi-fi phone, mobile, phone, skype, wi-fi, wifi, wireless

URL: http://www.belkin.com/skype/wifiphone/

The Wi-Fi Phone adheres to all Skype requirements to ensure that your Wi-Fi experience is as great as making Skype calls on your computer.

YouTube is World’s Fastest Growing Website

Youtube/Social Networks/News/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Mashable.com

More amazing YouTube stats: YouTube is now the world’s fastest growing website, with traffic increasing by 75% last week. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the site grew from 7.3 million to 12.8 million unique visitors - what’s more, traffic is up 297% since January.

Visitors are also spending more time on the site and viewing many more pages: pageviews increased by more than 5 times over the same period, up from 11.8 million in January to 72.4 million in June. Users now spend an average of 28 minutes (!) on the site - back in January, the average session was only 17 minutes. This comes right after the news from Hitwise that YouTube is now serving 100 million videos per day. The average YouTube user is male and aged 12-17.

MySpace Goes Offline

Myspace/Social Networks/News/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Mashable.com

Hear that? That’s the sound of 80 million people hitting the refresh button.

MySpace, one of the world’s most popular sites (perhaps the most popular), has suffered a major outage today - the URL fails to load at all. At 6:40pm last night, Tom posted a message on the leading social networking site stating that a power outage had taken out the MySpace servers. The site came back to “normal” service within a few hours, but after some unreliable performance today, MySpace.com is down completely. This is obviously causing a massive spike in the number of MySpace-related posts at Technorati, particularly from LiveJournal blogs (search for “myspace not working” and you’ll see what I mean).

Youth Study: Women Like Social Networks, Men Like Sports Sites

YouthTrends/Social Networks/News
Found on: marketingvox.com

A recent study on the top 10 websites among young males and females shows Google as the most favored, reports eMarketer (via MediaBuyerPlanner). Youth Trends, a website researcher, conducted a study in July 2006 with males and females between age 16 and 24. The research measures the percent of respondents to the top 10 sites. Google is favored among 31 percent of females and 34 percent of males.

However, for subsequent choices, males and females differ, according to Youth Trends. Females prefer social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and males tend to prefer ESPN, Google and Yahoo. "For females on the web right now, posting and sharing photos is big, so you can essentially say: females are to digital photos as males are to sports," Josh Weil of Youth Trends is quoted as saying.

Mac Spoof: Performance

Youtube/Social Network/Web Culture/Video
Found on: Youtube.com

TrueNuff takes on the new series of Mac Commercials.

Tags mac macintosh apple spoof parody commercial advertising macbook





Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 454,903

Comments: 1564

Favorited: 2196 times

Some of my favorite comments:

madonnafl

I don't really see it as making fun of blacks (considering the, well, HUGE compliments in the parody). I'm Japanese and it would be really funny for them to do a "yellow" Mac thing. Ha... or maybe not? I don't know.

chicaleek

Hahaha, too funny!!! "...Man, that Mac is one bad mother--- Shut yo mouth..."

pso80

Nice. Very funny.

Anybody who's offended over this needs to lighten up. It's a freaking joke, and there is clearly no intent on claiming superiority or inferiority based on race, which is what racism is.

Seriously folks, learn what racism is before you call something racist.

It's a joke about stereotypes, yes, but in no way is it being presented in a racist manner.

YouTube's 'New' Terms Still Fleece Musicians

YouTube/News/Article/Eliot Van Burkirk
Found on: blog.wired.com





Musicians such as Billy Bragg have been complaining about networking/music site MySpace's terms of use – and rightfully so. MySpace is said to be changing its tune, and should be posting updated terms soon (currently, its About page is offline).

The video site YouTube constitutes an equal or larger threat to small content producers. Before you upload that video of your 19-person indie rocker reggae band, for instance, you may want to read the fine print. YouTube's "new" Terms & Conditions allow them to sell whatever you uploaded however they want:

by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.

Movie Trailer Contest 2006

Second Life/Web Culture/Movie
Found on: Second Life

Calling all Second Life filmmakers and aspiring auteurs! It's time for another Movie Trailer Contest. We need your help to create the ultimate movie trailer to show off the best of Second Life. This is your chance to create a video trailer which shows Second Life in all its glory AND cash in on our eternal gratitude.

Your videos will help show the world everything we have to offer, make it easier to introduce new people to Second Life, and hopefully inspire great in-world filmmaking!

Contest Guidelines:

For this installment of the Second Movie trailer contest we're going to do things a bit differently. We've broken down the contest into six distinct categories that highlight some of the most popular activities in Second Life:

• Love and Romance
• Gaming
• Action/Adventure
• Music
• Fashion and Design
• RL Research and Education
• Building in Second Life
• Social Networking in Second Life

Your movie trailer should revolve around one of these categories and prominently feature at least two new features introduced in Second Life within the last year. These could include:

IMVU Review Part 1

IMVU/Social Network/Web Culture/Review
Found on: IMVU.com

Last week I posted a blog entry on IMVU , a new 3D avatar-centric chat client/service developed by the founder of "There", Mike Harvey.

IMVU currently has a community of over 1 million users and just from the looks of it, a lot more are just around the corner.

After trolling thru their website, I was really impressed with many of the features that seemed to be fresh and innovating for this space.

It Sucks that they don't have a Mac compatible software yet but since their still in beta, I'll let it slide.

Install and registration was a piece of cake and so was creating and customizing my avatar and once you had these steps completed, you were ready to chat.

Everything was aesthetically pleasing - the avatars moved with grace, the environments were full of detail and there were several to pick from -- my favorite so far is the Farris wheel.



The avatars are cute but not cute like Habbo cute, more like Anime cute; somewhere between "There" avatars and "Second Life" Sims. Speaking of cute, the IMVU avatars have a choice of half dozen or so expressions to select from like, "smile" "laugh" and "thumbs up".

So, there I was, sitting in a virtual pseudo "Starbucks" with some guy name Jose, having my first live IMVU session....chit, chat, chit, chat; I found out that he lived in Spain, his favorite band was Coldplay and that he prefered Bebo over Myspace.

To be continued...part 2 next week.

My Political Space

Essembly/Social Networks/News/Article/Robbie Brown
Found on: msnbc.msn.com

Imagine the Internet as a college campus. Amazon.com is the bookstore. Wikipedia is the library. Facebook is the snazzy new dorm. Friendster is the dreary old one. And the classroom? That just may be a newcomer, Essembly.com.

Essembly, designed last year by Joe Green, 23, a friend and former Harvard classmate of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is the emerging online social network of the serious-minded. Like Facebook and MySpace, the site is free and lets users browse friends' photos and personal information. But unlike more organic networks, it actively promotes intellectual discussion. In the spirit of collegiate debate, Essembly users spar over declarations of opinion called "resolves." They also identify other members as "allies" and "nemeses" based on ideological similarities. "On Facebook, people rack up 'friends' like there's no tomorrow," Green says. "What really is missing is a connection between people based on how they think."

The Official Sony Comic-Con YouTube Blogger is?

Youtube/Web Culture/Videos/Contest
Found on: Youtube

Last month I wrote about Sony Pictures and partner, You Tube, joining forces to select an official Sony Pictures Comic-Con blogger! Comic-Con International is the largest comic and pop culture festival in North America.


UPDATE:

COMIC-CON™ BLOG CONTEST

**THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER.**
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRAND PRIZE WINNER, STEVE Z. FROM OAK PARK, CA! CHECK OUT HIS VIDEO HERE:



DON'T FORGET TO CHECK BACK ON JULY 19, 2006 FOR A LINK TO STEVE'S BLOGS, LIVE FROM COMIC-CON™!!!

Some of Steve's (the winner) comments:

mistersh0w

Wow, what a shocker! Who really thought they were gonna win? I sure as hell didn't...In fact it came as such a surprise I almost passed out!!! This is definitley a nerd's dream come true, and I sure as hell won't let anybody down!...

mistersh0w

...I've really never won anything, and I've attented the comic con for 5 years now, and this was gonna be the first year I would miss because I just moved into an apartment in California (YEESH!) AND I just got married to my beautiful wife Sara, whom is the lucky "guest" on this nerd escapade!...

Wal-Mart becoming a competitor to MySpace?

Wal-Mart/News/Article/Brian White
Found on: bloggingstocks.com

This was a good one after reading about it -- Wal-Mart's new MySpace-ish website for the totally uncool teenager at its "School Your Way" website -- and its just about as far-fetched and kitschy as I have seen in some time. What are they trying to do here -- re-invent the wheel in the worst possible way? This is most likely a marketing experiment, but you never know how things like this will turn out -- perhaps everyone will migrate from MySpace over to Wal-Mart. Not.

Teenagers and entry-college people are generally the most faddish and entranced by fashion and trends, and it is hard to say if this marketing demographic will gravitate towards Wal-Mart as a fashionable trendsetter. Wal-Mart vs. Abercrombie? That's a rather odd comparison to visualize, yet that is exactly what Wal-Mart is trying to accomplish here from my perspective. The ad agency that created the campaign, GSD&M of Austin, Texas, must have some interesting research to back up up what they created.

Chateau Saint Germain 2002 Syrah/Grenache/Mouvedre

Corkd/Social Networking/Web Site/Wine
Found on: Corkd.com


Not bad for the price!

• Average Rating:

(1 Review)
• Vintage: 2002
• Varietal: Syrah/Grenache/Mouvedre
• Region: Coteaux Du Languedoc
• Price: 15 USD
• Created by: manual

Another nice blend from the Languedoc area which has become one of my favorite regions to sample over the past year. smooth blackberry taste with a hint of citrus. a velvety texture that would go well with most roasted meats.

MySpace Attacked by Flash Worm

Myspace/News/Article/Brian Krebs
Found on: Washingtonpost.com


A number of personal pages on the social networking site MySpace.com were attacked over the weekend using a security flaw in Macromedia Flash -- a flaw that Adobe released a patch to fix just last week. The worm spreads each time a MySpace user visits an infected user-profile page.

MySpace sent out a notice to all of its users late yesterday, saying the worm only appears to have affected people with vulnerable Flash players. Last week, Security Fix urged readers to upgrade their players to v. 9.0, noting that Adobe had fixed a flaw which could let bad guys hijack your browser if you were to merely browse a Web site that exploits the vulnerability. The Adobe update fixes the vulnerability in The patch fixes the vulnerability Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera.

Rocketboom explains net neutrality

Youtube/Social Network/Web Culture/Video
Found on: Youtube.com

Rocketboom host or should I say, ex-host Amanda Congdon, explains net neutrality.

Tags rocketboom net neutrality



Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 1,737

Comments: 8

Favorited: 3 times

Some of my favorite comments:

tamangandapio

Don't listen to Ghoti06, he/she is just spreading blatant misinformation. The video is correct, and so is Ninja. And Google. And Moby. And whoever isn't interested in increasing the already excessive power telcos hold.

Tokanova

Do we really NEED to upgrade the internet? It seems fine as is.

YouTube and the copyright cops: safe... for now?

YouTube/Social Network/News/Article
Found on: Arstechnica.com

If you've never heard of YouTube, let me introduce you: YouTube is a massively popular video sharing site that has quickly become one of the Internet's most trafficked websites, climbing into the top 50 of all sites online in a year's time (as tracked by Alexa). According to Nielsen NetRatings, the site serves almost 13 million users a month and serves up 50 million videos each day. Maybe you've been by the site to see Jon Stewart's hilarious (yet depressingly accurate) coverage of the "'Net neutrality" debate, or maybe you enjoyed watching Ernesto Hoost and friends in Silent Library. And maybe, just maybe, you've enjoyed some videos that weren't uploaded without the copyright owner's permission, too.

Why Grandma shouldnt Skydive.

JibJab/Social Networks/Web Culture/Comedy
Found on: JibJab.com

I had to look high and low to find a remotely funny video in JibJab's Jokebox but this one made me laugh.

Submitted by SMFRY790

video link

2,985 Views as of this post

Friendster Awarded Social Networking Technology Patent

Friendster/News/Article/Nate Anderson
Found on: Linuxelectrons.com




SAN FRANCISCO, California – Friendster has said that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a new patent. The patent was awarded to Friendster and lists Jonathan Abrams as the inventor, outlines a system, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.

The patent is titled, “A System, Method and Apparatus for Connecting Users in an Online Computer System Based on Their Relationships within Social Networks” (Number 7,069,308). The patent’s claims cover the unique system for calculating, displaying and acting upon relationships in a social network. This invention led to the emergence of widely adopted online social networking systems. "This patent is the first of many expected to be awarded to Friendster over the next several years and underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to innovation in social networking,” said Kent Lindstrom, president of Friendster.

Beyond Istant Messaging?

IMVU/Social Network/Web Culture/Avatars
Found on: IMVU.com


Create yourself in 3D
Imvu avatars are good looking, alive and fully 3D. Create your own unique look from 100,000s of clothes, hairstyles & accessories.

Meet new friends online
5718 people are using IMVU right now, 3D avatar chat is a safe and fun way to meet new friends from around the world.

Have fun on IMVU
IMVU is a community of people who love creativity, conversation and making friends. IMVU is packed with fun ways to express yourself.




Review Pending

Myspace Arson Suspect?

Myspace/Bebo/News/Article/MCP
Found on: MyCrimeSpace.com


MyCrimeSpace.com post.

Orginated from an article found on:

MySpace.com arson suspect arrested again:

A Kanawha County man who was arrested earlier this week on an arson charge after police saw a MySpace.com posting about the crime was arrested again Thursday after police say he fled from a deputy on his all-terrain vehicle while his driver’s license was suspended, court records show.

About 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Kanawha County Sheriff’s Deputy R.L. Keglor tried to pull over David A. Fugate, 20, who was riding an ATV on Campbells Creek Drive, but Fugate fled up Spring Fork Drive, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

On Monday, the victim gave investigators a printout from a message board on a juvenile’s online MySpace.com account in which Fugate claimed he was one of the people who threw the jars at the house, according to the criminal complaint.

And thanks to the article itself we have Fugate's MySpace.

MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites

Myspace/News/Stats
Found on: hitwise.com

Web research firm HitWise released its latest study, and it says that for the first time, MySpace is the No. 1 Web site in the USA based on market share of visits.

Weekly Market Share of Visits Ranking Among All Websites (U.S.)
Rank Name Domain Market Share

Top Search Terms Driving Traffic to All Sites

Week Ending July 8, 2006:

Most Righteous 80’s Video Site

MOG/Niche/Social Network/Web Site/Music
Found on: MOG

Trigger is one of my favorite MOG bloggers, he has a passion for music and he knows how to articulate it, which makes for a good read.

Here's his most recent post:

trigger says:

thanks to evan pontoriero for hooking me up with this:

videos galore
you have to wade through but there are some real gems
fun to see all the fashion goofiness

Bad Brains – I against I
Birthday Party – Release the Bats “you win, you got the stick”
A super young Henry Rollins live doing Six Pack
Cab Voltaire – Sensoria (DJ Favorite)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Spinning Round (great live)
Teardrop Expoldes – Reward (before the aliens took him)
The Young Gods – L’Amourir (neat video clips, a tron game quickie)

oh so many more

www.kingofbeaver.com/music_videos/

The easiest way to collect and share

Kaboodle/Social Bookmarking/Web Culture
Found on: kaboodle.cm




The easiest way to collect and share from anywhere on the web with one click.

Everything summarized on one page

All the right stuff: picture, description, price & more.

Kaboodle makes it easy to:

• comparison shop
• make wishlists
• plan vacations
• organize your research

Share your page with friends and family

Make your pages public or keep them private.

How does it work?
	Collect anything you find on the web, from products to hotels, photos to blogs, with one click
	Compare & share everything on one simple page
	Discover interesting things on pages of like-minded Kaboodlers

review pending

Stylehive bookmark of the week!

Stylehive/Social Bookmarking/Web Culture
Found on: Stylehive.com

Description: Where normally you would find the alphabet printed onto plastic, the Optimus has hundreds of tiny organic LEDs embedded into each key allowing the whole keyboard to change function with whichever application or alphabet you want to use.

Price: NA

Tags: computers, keyboard, led, oled, pc, technology

URL:http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

Bebo Turns Down £300M

Bebo/Social Networks/News/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Mashable.com



Bebo, the popular social network, has reportedly turned down a £300 million ($552 million) acquisition offer from British Telecom. Bebo demanded more than $1 billion for the company, which is massively popular in the UK market. The news follows rumors in March that Facebook had turned down an offer of $750 million.

Top Ten MySpace Clichés

Myspace/Web Culture/Website
Found on: worstofmyspace.com

The worstofmyspace website basically showcases the worst user profiles and myspace pages that are out today, it's irreverent and funny as hell.

I've posted the TOP TEN MySpace Clichés that I found on the site - it's so painfully true...it's brilliant!

1. Horrible page design: Do you like hurting people’s eyes? Was there some reason you thought people could read yellow text on top of some god-awful background picture? Do you really want people to read your page, or are you just bored?
2. Shirtless dudebro self-portrait in the bathroom mirror: My, you’re a narcissistic a**hole.
3. “Music: I like everything!”: It’s not true. You don’t like everything, and if you do, you lack what’s called “taste”.
4. “Books: Reading waht is that lol lol”: It was cool to be dumb back in 6th grade. Now you’re just a moron.
5. The stupid f**king sideways heart (<3): akhgiuahsgl *&#@%” Dammit, I hate this!
6. Sh**ty holding-camera-at-arm’s-length self-portrait: Look, at least have a friend take it.
7. Streaming Top 40 video: I’ve heard it seven million times. Thanks for making me listen to it again.
8. Girls talking about how a guy’s money doesn’t matter: Sure. Yeah. Uh huh. K.
9. Porn stars/supermodels on your friend list: They’re fake, moron.
10. “Heroes: My parents”: Booooring!

Calling All MySpace Members! See Your Name in Lights!

Myspace/Promotion/Web Culture/Movies
Found on: independentfilms.com



The Weinstein Company announced on Friday June 30, 2006, MySpace members will have the chance to have their names permanently listed in the ending credits of the highly anticipated release of "Clerks II." The first 10,000 people to add the "Mooby's Presents: Clerks II" page to their friends list will automatically be permanently added to the ending credits of the film, both in theaters and on DVD.

Update: There are over 77 thousand friends signed up.

(thanks bird)

BlueDot Launches - MySpace Meets Del.icio.us

Bluedot/Social Bookmarking/Social Networks/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Mashable.com



BlueDot, which launched at Gnomedex last Friday, is a beautifully-designed social bookmarking site with a more personal feel. The 10-person company is based in Seattle, and they’ve raised $1.5 million in angel funding from notable investors including former Starbucks Senior VP Don Valencia and former Microsoft Senior VP Richard Fade. The site has more than 2,200 users and 30,000 bookmarks (or “Dots”). They’ve been testing the service for the past 7 months.


BlueDot also includes a MySpace-style social network. You can add friends to your network and create groups of friends - you can then publish your bookmarks exclusively to these users (your family, for instance). It’s also very visual: users have profile photos that appear all over the site, and each bookmark is accompanied by an image. What’s more, you can customize your profile page by choosing a background pattern and color. And of course there’s RSS support and widgets to place on your blog or MySpace page.

Second Life Relay For Life

Second Life/Web Culture/Community
Found on: cancer.org

Relay For Life returns to Second Life for a second year of Relay. This year we are developing technology for virtual pledge cards, sponsorships, teams and other features. We are working to capture Second Life’s® near-infinite potential for creativity and collaboration. This adventurous new virtual setting will allow people to participate in Relay regardless of their geographic distances or physical limitations.

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life began in May 1985 when a colorectal surgeon ran around a track in Tacoma, Washington, for 24 hours, raising $27,000 to support the American Cancer Society. Today Relay For Life is held in more than 4,400 communities in the United States and in 21 countries across the globe. To date, Relay For Life has raised more than $1.5 billion to help the Society accelerate the progress against cancer by saving lives, helping those touched by cancer, and empowering people to fight back against this disease.

David Lee Roth on the Tonight Show

Youtube/Social Network/Web Culture/Video
Found on: Youtube.com

David Lee Roth does a bluegrass version of Jump on the Tonight Show.


Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 98,291

Comments: 158

Favorited: 184 times

Some of my favorite comments:

puptentacle (1 day ago)

The band is smoking hot. Roth looks like he just sat on a French Tickler. Two words. Pat Boone.

lukasakul (2 days ago)

he looks like robin williams lol

Friendster granted key social networking patent

Friendster/News/Article/Nate Anderson
Found on: arstechnica.com

Friendster, the once high-flying social network, has recently found its wings clipped by money problems and long load times. Though the site was once hailed as the "next big thing" on the Internet, the crown was quickly passed to MySpace instead (recently gobbled up by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.). Friendster hasn't had any such luck, despite putting themselves up for sale, but they have received some recent good news: more venture capital is coming, and a key patent application has been approved.

Rock N Roll Buddha?

MyPOPspace/Website/News/Update
Found on: mypopspace.com



I finally had some time to work on my banner image for the site, it's something I've wanted to do for awhile now. The picture of Buddha was taken at my Mother's Buddist temple; he was pointing his finger in the air a la John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, so I added the other finger to give him more of a rock n roll attitude a la Ronnie James Dio in Holy Diver - love it.

Honestly, I liked the old banner but it was time for a change, so hope you guys like it.

Don't forget to refresh your browser's cache (hold the shift key down as you click the refresh button).

Mochi

Another Social Networking Site?

iBloks/News/Article/Cliff Edwards
Found on: businessweek.com

Another day, another social networking site. A group of former Microsoft and Apple employees this fall plan to formally launch iBloks, a sort of digital scrapbooking site that lets users customize music, games and photos.

The company hopes to make money off selling "mods" that can be downloaded and used with the different forms of media. At an unveiling of the beta in San Francisco, for instance, company execs showed a simple drag and drop process for creating a Valentine's card.

Today's Top 3 Digg Videos

Digg/Social Bookmarking/Web Culture
Found on: Digg.com

I thought it would be fun to start posting the top three "NON" tech news stories users are digging on the new and improved Digg version 3.0.

Here's today's top three "Gaming" stories as of this post:

1)First PS3 Bundle over $1,000!!

PS3 bundle first price set at $1016

823 diggs

2)New Super Mario Bros. Challenge Mode

Thought you ’d done all there was to do with New Super Mario Bros? You rocked Bowser Jr’s face off, collected all the Star Coins, and figured you were the cat’s pajamas? Think again, young whipper snappers

809 diggs

3)Nintendo's Wii may get early launch

Industry observers expect company's new video game machine to launch before the PlayStation 3 - perhaps by a month or more.

790 diggs

Now rememeber, depending on the number of diggs these stories get, you may or may not see them on the Entertainment homepage and since Digg version 3 is still in BETA, you will need to have a Digg user account to access "NON" tech containers

Irish schools to block MySpace and Bebo

Myspace/Bebo/News/Article/MCP
Found on: MyCrimeSpace.com

I found this blog post on MyCrimeSpace.com, it orginated from an article found on the "Irish Independent" website.

Schools to cut pupils off from their daily Bebo fix:
Social networking sites are not just being blocked by schools in The States because of problems...

The controversial and hugely popular Bebo and MySpace.Com websites will be banned in all schools from September.

The schools will have a content filtering system which will block out these so-called social networking sites.

It will also block all illegal and harmful sites, pornography, hate sites and racist sites.

By September, all schools will be on a broadband network which is being organised by the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE), a government agency.

Bebo is organised around schools and colleges and is widely used in Ireland.